Italian Lunch and Faro Dinner During Philadelphia Restaurant Week

For lunch today, Joe and I went to this great little Italian restaurant in Philly called Barbuzzo. We found out today was restaurant week, so we got to enjoy a...

…three-course lunch for just $20! I started with the vegetable antipasto, which was served with a delicious piece of crusty bread.

Then I had the specialty pizza, which was absolutely amazing due to the fact that all the ingredients — the dough, the sauce, the fresh mozzarella cheese, the sausage — everything is made in-house and then cooked to perfection in their wood-fired oven!

Dessert was probably my favorite course, though. It was a chocolate and salted caramel budino. It was served in a cute little jar and had a dark chocolate cookie crust on the bottom, topped with a butterscotch budino (sweet Italian pudding) and then salted caramel and real whipped cream to finish it off. Divine!

After lunch I attended a great session at the conference about food and nutrition blogging. It reminded me of some of the most important keys to writing a good nutrition blog, such as:

People eat food, not nutrients.Focus on the foods first and then highlight the great nutritional benefits they have.

Ask readers questions to let them join in the discussion.

Keep it short and sweet, and always include pictures or video.

Share blogs through social media.

Always give disclosure when blogging about a company that you work with.

I try to do all these things regularly here in my Eat Like Me blog and will continue to do so to keep it fun and informative for you to read. Please let me know if there are other things I can do to make it one of your favorite blogs to visit daily!

After the afternoon sessions at the conference, Joe and I headed to dinner at a place called The Corner. We again enjoyed a delicious three-course meal thanks to Philly’s restaurant week.

I had butternut squash soup to start, followed by a delicious and seasonal roasted beet salad.

For my main course, I decided to go meatless, and enjoyed mini eggplants stuffed with feta cheese and dried fruit atop a bed of deliciously nutty farro. Yum!